Glossary of terms¶
Introduction¶
This page should contain a list of terms and acronyms used on this site. They are generated automatically, will grow quite large and probably contains many items you are already familiar with, but that is what the find command is used for in your browser :)
Acronyms¶
I try not to gratuitously use acronyms that aren’t in common use, but I guess it all depends on where, and with whom, you draw the line for “common use”.
The following list is automatically generated from the pages on this site that contain <acro> tags.
- ANSI
- American National Standards Institute
- ASCII
- American Standard Code for Information Interchange
- bash
- Bourne-Again SHell
- BTS
- Bug Tracking System
- CGI
- Common Gateway Interface
- CLI
- Command Line Interface
- CMS
- Content Management System
- CSS
- Cascading Style Sheets
- DOM
- Document Object Model
- ExCeL
- Exhibition Centre London
- FDL
- GNU Free Documentation License
- FOAF
- Friend of a Friend
- FSF
- Free Software Foundation
- FTP
- File Transfer Protocol
- GIMP
- GNU Image Manipulation Program
- GMT
- Greenwich Mean Time
- GNU
- GNU's not Unix
- GPL
- GNU General Public License
- GPS
- Global Positioning System
- GRDDL
- Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages
- GUI
- Graphical User Interface
- gvim
- GUI Vi IMproved
- hCalendar
- HTML iCalendar
- hCard
- HTML vCard
- HTML
- HyperText Markup Language
- HTTP
- HyperText Transfer Protocol
- ICAO
- International Civil Aviation Organization
- IDE
- Integrated Development Environment
- ISO
- International Standards Organization
- LGPL
- Lesser General Public License
- MDA
- Mail Delivery Agent
- MERLIN
- Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network
- MIME
- Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
- MUA
- Mail User Agent
- NNTP
- Network News Transfer Protocol
- NOAA
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- PC
- Personal Computer
- PDA
- Personal Digital Assistant
- POSIX
- Portable Operating System Interface
- QA
- Quality Assurance
- RCS
- Revision Control System
- RDF
- Resource Description Framework
- RegExp
- Regular Expression
- reST
- reStructuredText
- SCM
- Source Code Management
- SED
- Stream Editor
- SSI
- Server Side Includes
- TCP/IP
- Transport Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
- UA
- User Agent
- UDP
- User Data Paragram
- UK
- United Kingdom
- URI
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- URL
- Uniform Resource Locator
- UTC
- Universal Coordinated Time
- VCS
- Version Control System
- vim
- Vi IMproved
- W3C
- World Wide Web Consortium
- WMO
- World Meteorological Organization
- WYSIWYG
- What You See Is What You Get
- XHTML
- eXtensible HyperText Markup Language
- XML
- eXtensible Markup Language